Art Quotes by Marshall McLuhan

Art is anything you can get away with.

— Marshall McLuhan

The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.

— Marshall McLuhan

It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art.

— Marshall McLuhan

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

— Marshall McLuhan

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

— Marshall McLuhan

All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.

— Marshall McLuhan

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.

— Marshall McLuhan

What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.

— Marshall McLuhan

All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.

— Marshall McLuhan

As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.

— Marshall McLuhan

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture…

— Marshall McLuhan

The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.

— Marshall McLuhan

Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.

— Marshall McLuhan

If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as…

— Marshall McLuhan

Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.

— Marshall McLuhan

The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct…

— Marshall McLuhan

In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology...…

— Marshall McLuhan

If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social…

— Marshall McLuhan

Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic…

— Marshall McLuhan

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied…

— Marshall McLuhan

The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge…

— Marshall McLuhan

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide…

— Marshall McLuhan

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business…

— Marshall McLuhan

If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and…

— Marshall McLuhan

“The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial; rarely "well-adjusted", he cannot go along with…

— Marshall McLuhan

An expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into…

— Marshall McLuhan

I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony…

— Marshall McLuhan

During the Second War, the U.S.O. sent special issues of the principal American magazines to the Armed Forces, with the ads omitted.…

— Marshall McLuhan

The artist is engaged constantly in building anti-environments. (And, by the way, the Courtly Love people were engaged in making love itself…

— Marshall McLuhan

“I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony…

— Marshall McLuhan

Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.

— Marshall McLuhan

The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.

— Marshall McLuhan

It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds…

— Marshall McLuhan

Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.

— Marshall McLuhan

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

— Marshall McLuhan

Any expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into…

— Marshall McLuhan

Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical.…

— Marshall McLuhan

The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents…

— Marshall McLuhan

The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of…

— Marshall McLuhan

“The job of art is not to store moments of experience but to explore environments that are otherwise invisible. Art is not…

— Marshall McLuhan